Project HEADWAY: Simple, Not Simplistic: An Essential View Of PM

 

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To a lot of people, project management appears to be a significant amount of bureaucracy, administration and paperwork. One recent workshop attendee, in describing their perception of what a project manager does, articulated it as "Filling in forms and chasing administrative details." While there is inarguably a lot more to it than that, the enduring view of project management as bureaucracy implies that something is out of alignment. There is a fundamental gap between what project managers do and what others think they do.

At the same time, project managers often feel overwhelmed with what they do have to get done. Meetings, status reports, client management and responding to issues occupy virtually all of the project manager's day (as well as, quite often, their mornings, evenings and nights). There is often precious little time available for other responsibilities, let alone the deliverables that project managers are often also responsible for producing.

Faced with these frustrations, the human reaction is to throw up our hands and desperately wish there was a better way. Figuring out this better way requires getting to the essence of what project management is about. It requires understanding the essential capabilities and functions. It needs an appreciation of how to find simple, but not simplistic, solutions that ensure the critical functions of project management are addressed effectively.

In this webinar, Mark Mullaly steps back from the details to explore the essential principles that make project management work, and how to reconsider and reapply them in ways that make project management manageable. The webinar takes a look at what is optimal, and what can be optimized, to make project management the essential and value-added function it was always intended to be. If you're overwhelmed the project management challenge, step back, take a deep breath, and join us.

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